Biography
Oran Doyle is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, where he was Head of School from 2014 to 2018. He has held visiting positions at the Academia Sinica Taipei, Bocconi University Milan, and Keio University Tokyo.
Prof Doyle is an expert in comparative constitutional law, his recent work being published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and Global Constitutionalism as well as a number of other journals and edited collections. He has just published 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Account' for Hart's Constitutional Systems of the World series. Currently supervising Robbie Noonan's work on declarations of unconstitutionality, Li-Kung Chen's work on the continuity of states, Alex Layden's work on the judicial use of foreign constitutional law, and Juan Diego Galaz's work on constitutional rights of resistance in Latin America, Prof Doyle welcomes applications for supervision from students broadly in the area of constitutional theory.
Prof Doyle is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). He is also a mentor to the recently established Nigerian Chapter of ICON-S and serves on a working group that reviews applications for the establishment of new chapters. He co-convened an ICON-S symposium on constitutional silence in 2016 and the inaugural conference of the British-Irish chapter in 2017. The Chapter's next conference, organised around the theme of the UK's Departure from the European Union, will be held in Strathclyde in April 2019.
The recipient of a Provost's Teaching Award in 2008, Prof Doyle has lectured constitutional law 1 and jurisprudence to undergraduate students, and comparative constitutional law and theory to postgraduate students. He currently lectures Foundations of Law to first year undergraduate students and leads a final year research project group on democratic decay.
Prof Doyle is a regular contributor to public debates on issues of constitutional law in Ireland. He has published articles in the Irish Times on both the Children's Rights Referendum and the Marriage Equality Referendum. In 2016-17, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens' Assembly considering the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Order from Chaos? Typologies and Models of Constitutional Change in, editor(s)Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou , Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Change, Abingdon on Thames, Routledge, 2019, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Clearing the Legal Decks for the Abortion Referendum: The Supreme Court, Constitutional Precedent and Legal Certainty, Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019
Unearthing the 'Constitutional' in Quasi-Constitutionality in, editor(s)Richard Albert and Joel Colon Rios , Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions and Applications , Routledge, 2019, pp89 - 93, [Oran Doyle]
Philosophical Foundations of Natural Rights, Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Max Planck Encylopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Heidelberg, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Oran Doyle and John Martin Gillroy]
The Use of Foreign Law in Irish Constitutional Adjudication in, editor(s)Giuseppe Ferrari , The Use of Foreign Law by Constitutional Courts, Brill, 2019, [Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey]
Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis, 1st, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2018, 0 - 230pp
Oran Doyle, The Silent Constitution of Territory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17, 2018, p887 - 903
Interpretation: The Unrealizable Ideal of judicial Constraint in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan , Judicial Power in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2018, pp110 - 125, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Informal Constitutional Change, Buffalo Law Review, 65, (5), 2017, p101 - 118
Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenephon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou, , The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp73 - 95, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland: Political History and Balance of Power, Dublin University Law Journal, 42(2), 2017, p3 - 18
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Transitions, Abusive Constitutionalism and Conventional Constraint, National Journal of Constitutional Law, 35, 2017, p67 - 90
Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Amendment in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou , The Foundations and Tradition of Constitutional Amendment, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp199 - 218, [Oran Doyle and David Kenny]
Administrative Action, the Rule of Law and Unconstitutional Vagueness in, editor(s)Laura Cahillane, Tom Hickey and James Gallen , Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp237 - 251, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Foreign Law, Constitutional Cases and Theoretical Authority, Global Constitutionalism, 5, 2016, p85 - 108
Oran Doyle, Conventional Constitutional Law, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, 2015, p311 - 330
Dublin University Law Journal, 36, (2013), 1 - 403p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, The Dynamics of Constitutional Change, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 102, (2), 2013
Dublin University Law Journal, 35, (2012), 1 - 355p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, Judicial Scrutiny of Legislative Classification, Irish Jurist, 47, (1), 2012, p175 - 184
Oran Doyle, The Legitimate Authority of the Living Law, Jurisprudence, 3, (1), 2012, p113 - 133
Dublin University Law Journal, 34, (2011), 1 - 280p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Dublin University Law Journal: A Festchrift for the Honorable Justice Ronan Keane, 33, (2011), 1 - 428p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, Law and Justice in Community: the Significance of the Living Law, Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies, 6, (2), 2011, p19
Oran Doyle, Elusive Quarries: A Failure of Regulation, Dublin University Law Journal, 34, 2011, p180 - 207
Oran Doyle, Desmond Ryan, Judicial Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003: Reflections and Analysis, Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p369 - 392
Sisterly Love: the Importance of Explicitly Assumed Commitment in the Legal Recognition of Personal Relationships in, editor(s)Lynn Wardle, Scott Fitzgibbon, A Scott Loveless , The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships, USA, WS Hein & Co, 2010, pp329 - 351, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham and the Natural Law, International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, 1, 2010, p55 - 76
Oran Doyle, Legal Positivism, Natural Law and the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, (1), 2009, p206 - 227
Doyle, Oran and Carolan, Eoin, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall , 2008, x-xlvi, 1-530pp
"Article 44: Privileging the Rights of the Faithful" in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan and Oran Doyle , The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, [Oran Doyle]
Moral Argument and the Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships in, editor(s)Oran Doyle and William Binchy , Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, [Oran Doyle]
Doyle, Oran and Binchy, William, eds, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 272pp
Oran Doyle, The Constitution at 70, Doctrine and Life, 57, 2007
Oran Doyle, Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination and Autonomy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 27, 2007, p537 - 553
Oran Doyle, The European Communities (Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, Dublin University Law Journal, 28, 2006
The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Egalitarianism after the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill Reference in, editor(s)Eoin O'Dell , Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy, Dublin, First Law, 2006, pp393 - 426, [Oran Doyle and Gerry Whyte]
Dublin University Law Journal, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2004-2017
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Equality Law, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2004
Oran Doyle, Legal Validity - Reflections on the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 25, 2003
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland, Faculty Workshop, Tokyo, 10 July , 2018, Keio University Law School
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change and Intergenerational Disagreement, Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone, 25 November, 2018
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings: Taiwan and Ireland, World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Taipei, 7 September, 2018, Academia Sinica Taipei
Oran Doyle, Approaches to Comparative Constitutional Law, Seminar on Comparative Constitutional Law, Hiroshima, 27 July, 2018, Law Faculty University of Hiroshima
Oran Doyle, The Constitutional Implications of Brexit, UK Italian Constitutional Law Conversation, London, 7 June, 2018, UK Constitutional Law Association and Italian Devolution Club
Oran Doyle, Andrea Mulligan and Mary Rogan, Graduate Attributes, Curriculum Reform, and Pedagogical Innovation, LERU Law Schools Conference - The Future of Legal Pedagogy, Lund, 14 November 2018, 2018
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Hong Kong, 26 June, 2018
Oran Doyle, アイルランドの憲法変動, 法学セミナー, 467, 2018, p46 - 54
Oran Doyle, Populism and Democratic Theory, Congress of International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, 25 July, 2018, International Academy of Comparative Law
Oran Doyle, The Supreme Court, Review of The Supreme Court of Ireland, by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic , Studies: An Irish Quarterly, 2017
Oran Doyle, Let's Not Play Peekaboo with Constituent Power, Popular Will, Electoral Democracy and the Courts, Padova, 17 November, 2017
Oran Doyle, It's Bad to Talk: Judicial Dialogue and Foreign Law, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Copenhagen, 2017
Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Territory, Borders, Fences and Firewalls, Max Planck Institute Gottingen, 2017
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Dublin, Round Hall, 2017, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Ireland in, editor(s)Detlef Merten and Hans-Jurgen Papier , Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa, Heidelberg, CF Muller GmbH, 2016, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Dublin, Round Hall, 2015, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2013, Dublin, Round Hall, 2014, pp110 - 207, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2012, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2013, pp117 - 202, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2011, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2012, pp160 - 239, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, Annual Review of Irish Law 2010, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2011, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2010, pp188 - 258, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Doyle, Oran and Scannell, Yvonne, Town and County Planning and Natura 2000 in Ireland, Amenagement du Territoire Urbanisme et Reseau Natura 2000, 11, 2009, p190 - 206
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2008, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2009, pp122 - 182, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Oran Doyle, The Human Personality Doctrine in Constitutional Equality Law, Irish Student Law Review, 9, 2009, p101-
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2008
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, pp97 - 144, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2005, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2006, pp179 - 241, [Oran Doyle;Estelle Feldman]
Rapport National: Ireland in, editor(s)Jessica Makowiak , La Mise en Place du Reseau Natura 2000, Limoges, Pulim, 2005, pp213 - 233, [Oran Doyle]
Property Rights and Natura 2000 in Ireland in, editor(s)Michel Paques , Natura 2000 and Property Rights, Brussels, Bruylant, 2005, pp139 - 152, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle and Alan Keating, Discriminatory Planning Conditions - the Case for Reform, Law Society of Ireland, 2005
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne, William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2004, Dublin, Roundhall, 2005, pp163 - 212, [Oran Doyle, Estelle Feldman]
Oran Doyle, The Duration of Primary Education, Irish Student Law Review, 10, 2002, p222-
Oran Doyle, Façade Retention: Standing of Incorporated Persons to Challenge Planning Permissions, Trinity College Law Review, 2, 1999, p106-
Doyle O., Scannell, Doyle and Clarke, The Habitats Directive in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, 1999
Oran Doyle, Men of Straw? Change to the Rules of Locus Standi: An Unsuspected Side Effect of the McKenna and Hanafin Decisions, Trinity College Law Review, 1, 1998, p37-
Research Expertise
Description
Prof Doyle is a leading expert on comparative constitutional law and theory, with a particular focus on foundational questions of constitutionalism: how are constitutions made? How do constitutions relate to a particular people and territory, particularly in contested cases of secession and territorial conflict? How are constitutions changed? He has just published a monograph, 'The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis' for Hart's series on Constitutional Systems of the World. This book provides the first analysis, richly informed by comparative study, of how the Irish Constitution as a whole operates in practice. The International Journal of Constitutional Law has just published an article that advances a ground-breaking theory of legal territoriality, drawing on a newly compiled dataset of how all currently in-force constitutions address territory. Prof Doyle shows how the general silence of constitutions on the scope of their national territory operates against the background of unwritten conventions that limit the geographical application of laws in a legal system. Prof Doyle's next research project will further develop this theory to provide a new toolkit for responding to secessionist claims and territorial conflict. Prof Doyle's current research explores constitution-making authority, arguing that constitutions need not be made by 'a people' but a constitution must serve the needs of those subject to it. This in turn supports his broader exploration of how constitutions relate to physical space. Prof Doyle is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume of the German Law Journal on 'Populism and Constitutionalism', for which he has written a paper that explores the links between political populism and contemporary theoretical accounts of the people's constituent power. Other recently published work explores various aspects of constitutional change, including informal change, constraints on amendment powers, interest-group politics, constitutional transitions, deliberative democracy, and typologies of constitutional change.Projects
- Title
- Measures on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
- Summary
- Dr Doyle prepared the Irish report for a European Union project on the extent to which the laws of each Member State complied with Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention.
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 01/01/2007
- Date To
- 12/07/2007
Recognition
Representations
Constitutional Law Advisor to Ireland's Citizens' Assembly
Co-Chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law
Member of the International Society of Public Law Working Group on New Chapters
Guest Editor special volume of the German Law Journal on Populism and Constitutionalism
Global Associate Professor, Keio University, Tokyo
Visiting Research Fellow, Bocconi University Milan
Visiting research fellow at the Institutuum Jurisprudentiae of the Academia Sinica in Taipei.
Member of the editorial board of the Dublin University Law Journal.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Constitutional Studies.
External Examiner, NUI Galway
External Examiner, Honorable Society of King's Inns
External Examiner, Griffith College Dublin
Awards and Honours
Elected to Fellowship of the College
Provost's Teaching Award
Brookes Scholar, the Honourable Society of King's Inns
Awarded Gold Medal in LLB Degree
Scholar of Trinity College Dublin
Memberships
Irish Jurisprudence Society
International Society of Public Law
Law and Society Association